Dr Calum Neill
Lecturer in Psychology
Programme Leader for MSc. in Social Research
Applied Psychology and Social Research Group Leader
School of Life, Sport & Social Sciences
email. c.neill@napier.ac.uk | tel. +44 (0)131 455 6169
Subject Group
Psychology
Qualifications / Professional Membership
PhD
MA
BA Hons
PGCE
Teaching
Social Psychology 1 PSY07101
Social Psychology 2 PSY09106
Researching Psychology PSY09100
Critical Psychology PSY10104
Foundations of Social Research SSC11101
Research
The primary focus of my research is conceptions of
subjectivity and intersubjectivity and related questions of ethics, responsibility and connectivity. In exploring these issues, I draw mainly on the work of Jacques Lacan and related theorists such as Alain Badiou, Bracha Ettinger and Slavoj Žižek.
Research Affiliations
APSRG (http://www.napier.ac.uk/fhlss/Research/AppliedPsych/Pages/Home.aspx)
Discourse Unit (www.discourseunit.com)
Editorial Board member for the International Journal of Žižek Studies (www.zizekstudies.org)
Editorial Board member for the Annual Review of Critical Psychology (http://www.discourseunit.com/arcp.htm)
Editorial Board Member for the Teoría y Crítica de la Psicología (http://teocripsi.com/main.php)
Editorial Board Member for the Journal of European Psychoanalysis (http://www.psychomedia.it/jep/index.html)
Publications
Book
Neill, C. (2011) Lacanian Ethics and the Assumption of Subjectivity. Basingstoke. Palgrave.
Neill, C. (forthcoming, 2013) Ethics and Psychology: Beyond Codes of Practice. London. Routledge.
Recent Articles and Book Chapters
Neill, C. (2012) ‘The Excluded in Identification’. In Auestad, L. (ed.) Exclusion and the Politics of Representation. London. Karnac.
Neill, C. (2012) ‘To Love Thy Neighbour’. In Gulerce, A. (ed.) Critical Explorations through Psychoanalysis: In-between dynamics of psychic singularity and praxis of universal solidarity. London: Palgrave.
Neill, C. (2011) ‘Eating the Book: On the Centrality of Sublimation and Knowledge in Lacan’s Ethics’, Journal of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, Issue no.20.
Neill, C. (2010) ‘One Amongst Many: the ethical significance of Antigone and the films of Lars Von Trier’, in Wilmer, S. E. and Zukauskaite, A. eds. (forthcoming) Interrogating Antigone: Philosophy to Performance. Oxford. Oxford University Press.
Hook, D. & Neill, C. (2010) ‘Žižek, Political Philosophy and Subjectivity’, Žižek and Political Subjectivity, a special issue of Subjectivity, Vol 3.1 (2010).
Neill, C. (2009) ‘Who Wants to be in Rational Love?’, Annual Review of Critical Psychology, no.7
Neill, C. (2008) ‘Severality: Beyond the Compression of the Cogito’, Intersubjectivity and the (Im)possibility of Connection, a special issue of Subjectivity no.24.
Hook, D. & Neill, C. (2008) ‘Perspectives on ‘Lacanian Subjectivities’’, Intersubjectivity and the (Im)possibility of Connection, a special issue of Subjectivity no.24.
Neill, C. (2006) ‘Choang-tsu’s Butterfly: Objects and the Subjective Function of Fantasy’, Objects: Material, Psychic, Aesthetic, a special issue of Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism, Vol.14
Neill, C. (2006) ‘An Idiotic Act: On The Non-example of Antigone’, The Letter, Issue 34
Neill, C. (2005) ‘The Locus of Judgment in Lacan’s Ethics’, The Journal of Lacanian Studies Vol.3, Number 1
Recent Conference and Seminar Presentations
Neill, C. ‘The Evil I Retreat from in Myself: Nationalism and das Ding’ at at Psychoanalysis and Politics: 'Nationalism and the Body Politic', Winter Symposium, 25-27 March 2011, Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society, Oslo, Norway.
Hook, D. & Neill, C. ‘Apartheid Narratives and Psychoanalytic Discourse Analysis’ at the 2nd Apartheid Archive Conference: Working with the Archive. University of the Western Cape, Bellevue, South Africa, 1-3 September 2010.
Hook, D., Mountian, I., Neill, C., Parker, I. & Pavon Cuellar, D. ‘Apartheid Narratives and Psychoanalytic Discourse Analysis’ at the RIHSC Annual Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1-2 July, 2010.
Neill, C. ‘Beyond Identification: Lacan’s Ethics of Infinity’ at Psychoanalysis and Politics: 'Exclusion and the Politics of Representation', Winter Symposium, 19-21 March 2010, Nordisk Sommeruniversitet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Neill, C. ‘Transference Beyond Analysis’ at the International Society for Theoretical Psychology Conference, 'East', 'West', 'South', 'North': Challenges and Transformations inChallenges in Theoretical PsychologyTheoretical Psychology. 15-19 May 2009, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.
Hook, D. & Neill, C. ‘What is Lacanian Discourse Analysis?’ at the International Society for Theoretical Psychology Conference, 'East', 'West', 'South', 'North': Challenges and Transformations inChallenges in Theoretical PsychologyTheoretical Psychology. 15-19 May 2009, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.
Neill, C. ‘The (Im)possibility of Community’ at the Community Psychology Conference, 18-19 September 2008, Napier University.
Branney, P. & Neill, C. ‘Intersubjective Dependency: Against Individualism’ at the Community Psychology Conference, 18-19 September 2008, Napier University.
Branning, P., Hook, D. & Neill, C. ‘Loving Otherwise: Veering Elsewhere’at Subjectivity: International Conference in Critical Psychology, Cultural Studies and Social Theory. 27-29 June 2008, Cardiff University.
Neill, C. ‘Democracy as Subjective Function’ at Political Studies Association Annual Conference: Democracy, Governance and Conflict: Dilemmas of Theory and Practice. 1-3 April 2008, Swansea University.
Neill, C. ‘Identification, Isolation and the Possibility of the Social’ at the International Society for Theoretical Psychology Conference, Theoretical Psychology Beyond Borders: Transdisciplinarity and Internationalization. 18-22 June 2007, York University, Toronto.
Neill, C. ‘Wit(h)nessing the other?’ at Research Institute for Health and Social Change Seminar, 24 January 2007, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Neill, C. ‘One Amongst Many: The Function of Antigone in Lacan’s Ethics’ at Interrogating Antigone Conference. 6-7 October 2006, Trinty College, Dublin.